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A Capella | France's Famous Trimaran | Yachting World

A Capella | France's Famous Trimaran | Yachting World Take a look round this wonderful and historic trimaran, which has just finished the #RolexFastnetRace in the hands of French owner and skipper Charlie Capelle. Now named Acapella, this 38ft Walter Green design from the 1970s was once Canadian sai...

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Spronging off with Yachting Monthly

Sometimes springing off the bow won't work, as the bow blows back in when you engage neutral. That's when you need to sprong off the bow instead, says YM reader Colm Cleary. Here's how.

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Yachting Monthly's actioncam test

Want to take hands-free video and stills from places you can't get to yourself? Michael Topham of What Digital Camera magazine, tests six of the best actioncams for cruising yachtsmen

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Yachting Monthly video review Starlight 35

Dick Durham joins Yachting Monthly reader Nigel Blundell aboard his Starlight 35, built in 1995, for spot of cruising off southern Brittany

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Yachting Monthly joins Roger Taylor aboard Mingming 2

Roger Taylor made his name writing books about his solo voyages into gale-torn northern latitudes in his 21ft Corribee Mingming. Yachting Monthly's Dick Durham meets him while refitting Mingming 2, an Achilles 24, to find out where he's going next

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Yachting Monthly tests the Premier 45

The Premier 45 is the first in a promised series of performance cruisers from Middle Eastern composite specialists, Premier Composite Technologies. She looks striking but can she back up her bold design statement?

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Yachting Monthly's Swan 411 video review

Read YM's full report on the Swan 411 in our November 2013 issue

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Yachting Monthly's Swan 411 video review trailer

Read YM's full report on the Swan 411 in our November 2013 issue

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Yachting Monthly's Beneteau Sense 46 test

Beneteau took a long hard, look at us cruisers and how we sail to figure out what sort of boat we wanted. The result is the Sense range - essentially an apartment with amazing views that's great fun to sail. We tested the 46 in Palma.

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Yachting Monthly's Discovery 57 test

In a two-part test we saw how the Discovery 57 tamed a gale F8 gusting 10, before going out again in more friendly conditions to get some pictures. For £1.3m you get a tastefully luxurious, beautifully built, easy to sail solo, rock-solid reliable and round-the-world ready passage-maker.

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Yachting Monthly's Bavaria 42 Vision test

After a year's market research in seven countries, Bavaria, Farr Yacht Design and Design Unlimited got their heads together and the Vision range is the result. Chris Beeson takes the 42 Vision out for a spin

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Yachting Monthly tests Omer Wing Sail

Can a wing sail make life easier for the crew, as well as sailing higher, faster and smoother? Ilan Gonen, inventor of the Omer Wing Sail, thinks so. Mast partner Formula Marine invited us to Montpellier to try it out

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Yachting Monthly's Dehler 38 test

Yachting Monthly visited Marseille to sail the new Dehler 38 with Karl Dehler, project manager of this, the first Dehler to be built in Hanse's Greifswald plant. And she's a corker!

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Yachting Monthly's Elan 400 test

We had a great time testing the Elan 310 in 2009, loved the 350 and, after seeing her in Dusseldorf's Boot 2013 show, finally the wait for the 400 is over. Yachting Monthly went to an unexpectedly sunny Portoroz in Slovenia to put her through her paces

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Yachting Monthly's Bavaria 33 Cruiser test

After some negative industry feedback, Bavaria decided to remodel its 32 Cruiser. The result is the 33 Cruiser - same hull but a different deck and revised interior. So was the revamp a success? Yachting Monthly goes sailing to find out.

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Yachting Monthly's anchor chain test

Is Chinese chain safe for anchoring your yacht? Yachting Monthly's expert metallurgist Vyv Cox tests 13 samples of 8mm chain, Grade 30 and 40, from Europe and the Far East to find out

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Yachting Monthly Triangle Race second leg.mov

Yachting Monthly Triangle Race second leg

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Yachting Monthy - Hallberg Rassy 412

Hallberg-Rassy launches its new 412, its first ever model with double aft cabins. Yachting Monthly visits the yard in Ellos, Sweden, to test her. See the September 2012 issue of Yachting Monthly to read the full review

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat - Explosion!

She's been called 'Britain's most abused boat'... dismasted, capsized, holed, set on fire ... and now exploded. We knew this final test -- a gas leak and LPG explosion -- was the most dangerous and potentially costly in Yachting Monthly's ground-breaking 'Crash Test Boat' series of articles. Would t...

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat Fire

How would you cope with a fire onboard? How much smoke is there? How does a powder extinguisher affect visibility? To find out, Yachting Monthly sets fire to the Crash Test Boat, looks at various ways of extinguishing different fires and learns lessons from experts. Buy the Crash Test Boat App htt...

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat - Through Hull Failure

What happens when your through hull fittings fail and you start sinking? Whether it's a seacock or a log transducer that fails what can you use to stop the leak? Find out what works and what doesn't. Read the full article in the October 2011 issue of Yachting Monthly Buy the Crash Test Boat App ht...

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat is holed Part 2

Yachting Monthly's Crash Test crew makes a hole in its boat, puts it in the water and tries various methods of preventing water flooding in. Is it possible to stop the boat from sinking? Buy the Crash Test Boat App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/yachting-monthly-crash-test/id487217745?mt=8

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat is holed Part 1

Yachting Monthly's Crash Test crew makes a hole in its boat, puts it in the water and tries various methods of preventing water flooding in. Is it possible to stop the boat from sinking? Buy the Crash Test Boat App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/yachting-monthly-crash-test/id487217745?mt=8

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat Jury Rig

Following its dismasting, Yachting Monthly's Crash test team explores how to use the remaining wreckage to fashion a jury rig and sail to safety. We turn a sloop into a square rigger and discover a clever way to use shackles. Buy the Crash Test Boat App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/yachting-mon...

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat Dismasting

This month we take our Crash Test Boat out and dismast her in 30 knots of breeze. Then we see which methods work for removing the rigging, and how much of the rig we can save. Buy the Crash Test Boat App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/yachting-monthly-crash-test/id487217745?mt=8

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Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat Capsize

Why did so many abandon yachts in the 1979 Fastnet, only to lose their lives in liferafts while their boats were recovered afloat? Yachting Monthly and Mike Golding capsized a yacht to find out, and tested a few cheap, quick modifications that make life below much safer in a capsize. The team at Ya...

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Yachting Monthly - Baccus rescue 2

The crew of Baccus, a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45.2, are hauled aboard Maersk Surabaya as the yacht's mast crashes against the container ship's hull. For the full story see Yachting Monthly July 2011

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Yachting Monthly - Baccus rescue 1

The yacht Baccus approaches the container ship that came to her rescue in Force 9 winds in the Indian Ocean

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Yachting Monthly - Crash Test Boat

What's your worst sailing nightmare? Sinking or capsize? Have you ever run aground on a lee shore? Yachting Monthly has acquired a second-hand 40ft Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 ketch, which we will be using over the coming months to test major disaster incidents on board. Our Crash Test Boat series will b...

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360 Docking Tested by Yachting Monthly

Yachting Monthly tests Jeanneau's revolutionary new 360 Docking system

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